Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2019) "In the Society’s Strong Box": A Visual and Material History of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, c.1736-1760. Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science, 34 (2). pp. 284-316. ISSN 0394-7394. (doi:10.1163/18253911-03402006) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Abstract
It has become a commonplace that exceptional achievement, including within science, should
such awards today means that the circumstances behind their arrival tend to be overlooked,
traces the creation of the Copley Medal and explores the meaning of medals to the recipients,
iconography and material nature can shed light on how experimental philosophy and the role
antiquarianism and Freemasonry. Rather than arriving as a fully formed reward system, the
ritual, meaning and value.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1163/18253911-03402006 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | Royal Society, medals, iconography |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Humanities > School of History |
| Depositing User: | Rebekah Higgitt |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2019 12:45 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2019 10:19 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/73612 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
| Higgitt, Rebekah F.: |  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9387-4150 |
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